Bill Text: NY A06454 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Reforms youthful offender laws so that a person who commits a violent offense within 5 years of a youthful offender adjudication is treated as a repeat felon; removes the confidentiality of such youthful offender adjudication records.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-27 - held for consideration in codes [A06454 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06454-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6454
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 17, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. JOHNS, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         BURLING, CALHOUN, CROUCH,  GOODELL,  GRAF,  KATZ,  LOSQUADRO,  MURRAY,
         N. RIVERA, TEDISCO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
       AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to treatment of
         certain youthful offenders as repeat felons
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 720.35 of the criminal procedure
    2  law, as amended by chapter 452 of the laws of 1992, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    1.  A  youthful  offender adjudication is not a judgment of conviction
    5  for a crime or any other offense, and does not operate  as  a  disquali-
    6  fication  of  any  person  so  adjudged  to hold public office or public
    7  employment or to receive any license granted  by  public  authority  but
    8  shall  be deemed a conviction [only] (A) for the purposes of transfer of
    9  supervision and custody pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-m  of
   10  the  executive  law  OR  (B)  FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER THE
   11  PERSON IS SUBJECT TO SENTENCE PURSUANT TO SECTION 70.04, 70.06, 70.08 OR
   12  70.10 OF THE PENAL LAW, WHENEVER THE  PERSON  HAS  COMMITTED  A  VIOLENT
   13  FELONY  OFFENSE,  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 70.02 OF THE
   14  PENAL LAW, WITHIN FIVE YEARS OF THE DATE ON WHICH HE OR SHE WAS  ADJUDI-
   15  CATED  A  YOUTHFUL OFFENDER FOR A FELONY OFFENSE, AND HAS BEEN CONVICTED
   16  OF SUCH VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE.
   17    S 2. Section 720.35 of the criminal procedure law is amended by adding
   18  a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   19    5. NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, WHENEVER A  PERSON
   20  STANDS CONVICTED OF A VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE COMMITTED WITHIN FIVE YEARS
   21  OF  THE DATE ON WHICH HE OR SHE IS ADJUDICATED A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER FOR A
   22  FELONY OFFENSE, ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO THE YOUTHFUL OFFENDER  ADJUDI-
   23  CATION SHALL NO LONGER BE CONFIDENTIAL.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   25  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09256-01-1